Gaston® the Green-Nosed Alligator (Gaston the Alligator) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1565542851 ISBN 13: 9781565542853

Verlag: Pelican Publishing Co, 1999

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Book by Rice James

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Unprepared for his yearly trek because of a series of problems, a perplexed Santa sees Gaston in flight-suddenly the friendly alligator is employed to help save Christmas Eve. Gaston, the intrepid green-nosed alligator from the bayou, ventures far and wide to satisfy his wanderlust. Gaston's creator, James Rice, has written and illustrated eight books featuring the friendly swamp creature.

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"Rice is especially good with facial expressions, whether they are on a Texas jackrabbit, a longhorn steer, a dusty cowboy, or the green and long-nosed alligator named Gaston." --%iLibrary Journal%r

The classic tale of Christmas Eve in a bayou setting provided the theme of Cajun Night Before Christmas, one of the country's most widely acclaimed Christmas books. In that best-selling volume, the traditional jolly old St. Nick appears as a Cajun trapper dressed in muskrat and riding in a gift-laden pirogue pulled through the sky by eight charming, friendly alligators.
What led Santa Claus to move his workshop from the snowy North Pole to the moss-draped bayou country? Why were his faithful reindeer replaced by alligators? And how did he manage to assemble a team of flying alligators for his all-important Christmas journey?
In this delightful work, author-illustrator James Rice explains just how it happened. In the process, he creates another fascinating tale for youngsters and adults alike.
Gaston played a pivotal role in Cajun Night Before Christmas, the first book in the Night Before Christmas series. In turn, Gaston the Green-Nosed Alligator is the first book in another series that includes Gaston Goes to Mardi Gras and Gaston Goes to Texas. A coloring-book edition is also available from Pelican, as are a Gaston plush toy and audiocassette compilations of Cajun Night Before Christmas and Gaston the Green-Nosed Alligator.
Widely acclaimed as the South's leading illustrator of juvenile books, James Rice is the illustrator and/or author of over sixty titles, with almost two million copies in print. Rice was born on a farm in Coleman County, Texas, and currently resides in Hico, Texas. He has taught art at the grammar-school, high-school, and university levels and enjoys talking to schoolchildren across the country about writing and art.

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• Verlag: Pelican Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1565542851
• ISBN 13: 9781565542853
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
• Zeichner: Rice James